why is this song playing?

[merilu]

I created a playlist from one album from on artist- i pressed shuffle play and after about 5 songs it jumped to a song NOT on that album.

okay, thats not toooo bad. but i'm only into hearing this artist's older work. let me try making a playlist from starred tracks.

so i starred tracks from three albums by this artist- i pressed shuffle play and after a few songs that i had starred, a song by a completely different artist starting playing. i have never searched for this artist, let alone starred their music.

why is is this happening? is this how spotify works? i was led to believe that if i was paying for  premiu i could shuffle play ONLY the artist and albums i wanted.

thanks for the help.

[Peter__]

You will get "suggested" tracks added into your play queue if the playlist has less than 12 tracks or doesn't have enough diversity (of artists) in the tracks.

[merilu]

so i cant listen to a playlist of only one artist without spotify interjecting others? 

[Peter__ · Accepted solution]

You could listen to an artist catalogue on shuffle from the artist page from what I know, but if you are playing from a playlist or album page on free on a mobile device you may get suggested tracks yes.

[merilu]

Thanks for the knowledge!